Axelle Ferrière joined the Department in 2024 as an Associate Professor of Economics and a Centre national de recherche scientifique (CNRS) Research Fellow. Prior to that she was a Chaired Professor and CNRS Research Fellow at the Paris School of Economics (PSE) and she was an Assistant Professor at the European University Institute (EUI). She is also a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). 

Her research primarily focuses on fiscal policy and redistribution, through the lens of heterogeneous-agent models. She is also interested in the quantitative effects of uncertainty. Her work has been published in journals such as Review of Economic Studies, American Economic Journal : Macroeconomics and Journal of Monetary Economics.

She holds a PhD in Economics from New York University's Stern School of Business, a Master in Economic Analysis and Policy from PSE and a Master in Quantitative Economics and Finance from École Polytechnique (X). 

To learn more about Axelle Ferrière's research, consult her website

Review of Economic Studies, Member of the Editorial Board

• Axelle Ferrière, Gaston Navarro. Fiscal Management of Aggregate Demand: The Effectiveness of Labor Tax Credits. 2025. ⟨hal-04748006v2⟩
• Axelle Ferriere, Philipp Grübener, Dominik Sachs. Optimal Redistribution: Rising Inequality vs. Rising Living Standards. 2024. ⟨hal-04849262⟩
• Axelle Ferriere. Axelle Ferrière Discussion of: Sanctions and the Exchange Rate. Economic Policy, 2024, 39 (118), pp.355-358. ⟨10.1093/epolic/eiae028⟩. ⟨hal-04849208⟩
• Axelle Ferriere, Gaston Navarro. The Heterogeneous Effects of Government Spending: It’s All About Taxes. Review of Economic Studies, 2024, ⟨10.1093/restud/rdae032⟩. ⟨hal-04849051⟩
• Axelle Ferriere, Philipp Grübener, Gaston Navarro, Oliko Vardishvili. On the Optimal Design of Transfers and Income Tax Progressivity. Journal of Political Economy Macroeconomics, 2023, 1 (2), pp.276-333. ⟨10.1086/725034⟩. ⟨halshs-04157306⟩
• Axelle Ferriere, Philipp Grubener, Gaston Navarro, Oliko Vardishvili. Larger transfers financed with more progressive taxes? On the optimal design of taxes and transfers. 2021. ⟨halshs-03466762⟩
• Axelle Ferriere. Comments on “Capital income taxation with housing”. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2020, 115, ⟨10.1016/j.jedc.2020.103884⟩. ⟨halshs-02973793⟩
• Axelle Ferriere, Anastasios Karantounias. Fiscal Austerity in Ambiguous Times. American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2019, 11 (1), pp.89-131. ⟨10.1257/mac.20160085⟩. ⟨halshs-02084280⟩